European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to Romanticism
- ISBN-10
- 0300052855
- ISBN-13
- 9780300052855
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 216
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993-01-01
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press
- Author
- Anthony Pagden
Description
For more than three centuries after Columbus' voyages to America, Europeans pondered how the Old World's encounters with the New World affected European sensibilities and intellectual horizons. In this book Anthony Pagden examines some of the varied ways in which Europeans interpreted these encounters with America.
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